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2010-03-12 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Patriotic music, big guns, spotter planes, locomotives, sailors and Frenchmen.

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Posted by Besoeker 2010-03-12 10:08|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Have a fine documentary of WWI by Major Channel Four, Professor Hew Strachan.

Of course I have to fast forward past the extensive coverage of the Turkish theatre now because it is against the law to consider the Armenia theatre >:/

Posted by swksvolFF 2010-03-12 12:13|| 2010-03-12 12:13|| Front Page Top

#2 Excellent Old Film, one correction.
In the Navy the command is "Shoot" the word Fire is reserved for actual fire to prevent misunderstandings.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2010-03-12 17:28|| 2010-03-12 17:28|| Front Page Top

#3 These were 14"/50 guns and were also used in New Mexico and Tennessee battleships, including the ill-fated Arizona. They saw heavy combat during World War 2, at which time they were well over twenty years old.
Ten of the slightly older 14"/45 guns survive to this day aboard the USS Texas and can give a good idea what these were like.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2010-03-12 18:51|| 2010-03-12 18:51|| Front Page Top

#4 Update: One of these very guns in preserved at the Washington Navy Yard.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2010-03-12 19:27|| 2010-03-12 19:27|| Front Page Top

#5 thanks. Now I feel infinitesimally inadequate

Posted by Frank G 2010-03-12 19:37|| 2010-03-12 19:37|| Front Page Top

#6 mmmmm. that was wrong. You get the mental picture.

Posted by Frank G 2010-03-12 19:38|| 2010-03-12 19:38|| Front Page Top

#7 That is one big shootin' arn.

Posted by Old Patriot 2010-03-12 20:34|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/ 2010-03-12 20:34|| Front Page Top

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